REGISTRATION IS FULL BUT YOU CAN JOIN THE WAITLIST. THE EVENTBRITE LINK IS BELOW. 

Chuck van Zyl: Live Concert Performance + CD Release

After decades of music-making, electronic artist Chuck van Zyl is credited with a range of substantial live appearances, collaborations and album releases. Realized in the specific poetry of the Berlin-School his creations draw on a unique understanding of texture, atmosphere and scale. With its deep-space gateways and brilliant sequencer breakdowns, from the heights of heedless improvisation, on down to its quietly consuming fields, his work opens a zone of one's own.

Spontaneously composed in the moment, performances by Chuck van Zyl evoke the sense of discovery first heard in early albums by Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Offering a quiet sense of mystery, his recitals are uniquely designed for an informed audience set for a journey. To riders of this aural plain his music is the perfect soundtrack. Somewhere between its mysterious sense of interiority and celestial yearning the audience will find room to contemplate the cosmos, or just as easily encounter the self.

Gliding through the spaceways, Chuck van Zyl presents pulsing passages of rhythmic flight. Slow chords hold forth, while cycling sequencer notes echo out amidst lithe keyboard leads. As synthesizer harmonies rise and fall, in passages of dark and light, an unexpected beauty emerges. It is in this remarkable realm that we are asked to give in to the sensation of sound, and connect with our inner stillness.

Perhaps best known as host of STAR'S END for the past 40+ years - one of the world's most successful radio programs of Spacemusic - or as founder of The Gatherings - Philadelphia's premiere concert series of innovative music - Chuck van Zyl has also been producing his own electronic realizations, in collaboration and solo, since the mid-1980s. He has played live at a variety of venues, and issued numerous studio works and concert recordings - all in service to an enduring impulse for expression. The new album "Votive" represents the diverse sonic terrain he is capable of achieving in the studio - the release of which coincides with the 4 December 2021 event at The Rotunda, his first public performance in well over two years.

Doors open at 7:30pm.

Following the performance will be a brief Q & A and CD signing.

PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF OUR COVID RULES:

-Everyone over the age of two years old will be required to wear a mask the entire time they are indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

- We will ask each person in attendance to sign in at the front desk, for contact tracing purposes.

- Social distancing will be enforced.

-Seating is very limited. Registration is required.

This event is FREE. REGISTRATION IS FULL BUT YOU CAN JOIN THE WAITLIST. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chuck-van-zyl-live-concert-performance-cd-release-registration-208177623877

Hey! Alex from The Afterverse here! We publish BLACK VANS and other Black and POC/LGBT comics! We are hosting a Draw-In (and a write-in, and a collage-in!) where POC and LGBT folks and allies gather to finish or perhaps start those comics, zines, short stories, novels, movie scripts that we've been working on! In a chill environment, we'll share snacks, watch some cartoons or sci-fi films, listen to some music, and make art and stories!

I've always found that a co-working space was good for my creativity, if this is also you come hang! This will be a good, super safe, queer empowering space to network, share ideas, meet collaborators and possibly even get real time feedback on what you're working on! It's also just a fun hang.

Come through!

Admission is FREE

Masking enforced

REDEEMER TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH-KIDS UNITED

PASTOR, DENISE TWYMAN

Cordially Invites You to Our

ANNUAL CELEBRATION “JESUS BORN IN BETHLEHEM”

12/11/2021

3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Lite snacks will be provided

Feel free to bring your talent

Social distance required and masks worn at all times

Please R.S.V.P. by 12/5/2021 to

LaVern Allen at 215-870-3917

Anthony Robinson at 267-977-4206

Get your planners and calendars ready! Map out the coming year with us.

About this event

Vision Driven Artists (VDA) exists to increase resources and opportunities for local artists and arts organizations.

Create your own artist statement and get an understanding of what makes a good one in this Rotunda-sponsored workshop.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

- Identify your goals for 2022 and break them into achievable tasks

- Plot your tasks on a timeline or calendar for 2022

- Create a plan to keep yourself accountable

ABOUT VISION DRIVEN ARTISTS

Vision Driven Artists - Philly RESOURCES is an online community of local artists who are interested in sharing resources, collaborating on projects, learning about opportunities, and building a more equitable arts scene.

If you want to market your art, events, fundraisers, performances, etc. please do so at Vision Driven RESOURCES - Philly PRESENTS [Closed Group]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VDAPhillyPresents

If you would like to learn more about Vision Driven Artists, please follow our Facebook Page to learn about events, resources, opportunities, and workshops: https://www.facebook.com/VisionDrivenArtists/

Registration is FREE and is required in order to receive the Zoom link for the workshop. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vda-planning-for-2022-tickets-168319097953

Black Art Conversations

Wed. Oct. 20, 6-8pm, Sun. Nov. 14, 4-6pm, and Wed. Dec. 15, 6-8pm

About this event

A 3-part series of moderated discussions and live performances showcasing local independent Black artists, intersecting cultures, spanning generations to celebrate the emerging works they've produced and their experiences in the industry.

The event is organized by Shekhinah B. and supported in part by Creative Philadelphia (Office of Arts Culture and the Creative Economy) and The Rotunda.

COVID Safety Guidelines & Precautions

- Everyone over the age of 2 will be required to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. 

- Performers/presenters and attendees will be asked to stay home if they feel unwell or have been in contact with someone diagnosed with Covid within 14 days of the event.

- Event organizers or the venue will register attendees and performers/presenters ahead of time or at the front desk, depending on the event, and will require them to alert us if they become sick after the event so that we can let everyone else know.

You must register to attend, seating is limited due to COVID restrictions. Please register at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-art-conversations-tickets-164183839283

This event is part of the Liminal States Series

ABOUT THE ARTISTHelena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands, a silent movie orchestra, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance, she went on to live in the US between 2000-2012,  where she performed with dancers, recorded and toured with folk psych band Espers, sang Swedish traditional songs, played concerts at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the High Zero Festival of improvised music in Baltimore, MD, at the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn, NY, at Big Sur experimental festival in California and at Terrastock among others. Espvall has received grants for artist residencies in Mojacar, Spain, at CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic, and at Binaural / Nodar, Portugal, and she was the recipient of an Individual Arts Award from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has worked with Lukas Ligeti, Fursaxa, Damon & Naomi, Bert Jansch, Masaki Batoh (Ghost), Vashti Bunyan,  Marissa Nadler, Pauline Oliveros and many more. Now residing in Lisbon, she has collaborated with musicians like Norberto Lobo, Manuel Mota, Sei Miguel, and Vitor Rua, among others. She currently plays with the improv collective Lantana, that has collaborated with Lula Pena, and performed at Lisboa Soa Festival in the Estufa Fria, at the Jazz Ao Centro Festival in Coimbra, and at Jazz 2020, Gulbenkian. She is also a member of the band Beautify Junkyards that released an album this year on British label GhostBox.  Espvall has done solo performances at Out.Fest, ZDB, Bar Irreal, Damas and the Panteão, and invited by Culturgest, she recently created a solo piece for acoustic guitar, as a part of the project Abrindo o Livro dos Sons, a tribute to German composer Hans Otte.

Admission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/helena-espavall-tickets-203244288137 A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins.

Stay at home NYE: Brandon Lopez Trio

DONATE TO FIRE MUSEUM PRESENTS:

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Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlVWFWlcKE

We are sharing this video on New Year’s Eve, join us for a viewing/listening party at home if like us you’d like to bring in the new year with a joyful noise at home!

This video will be taken down after the premiere – the audio from this performance is going to be released on the wonderful Relative Pitch label in the future!

Brandon Lopez works at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. This collaborative powerhouse never lets up with underground sax hero Steve Baczkowski and Gerald Cleaver who is among the most agile and wide-ranging first-call musicians on the 21st century jazz scene.

Brandon Lopez:

New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times).

From the New York Philharmonic’s David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others.

Brandon was a 2019–2020 Artist in Residence at Roulette, a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room and 2018 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, Recent highlight performances include opening the 2018–2019 season of the New York Philharmonic as a featured soloist in Ashley Fure’s “Filament” and a number of works with John Zorn, including the Zorn’s 35th anniversary of “Cobra”.

Steve Baczkowski:

Steve Baczkowski is an improviser, saxophonist, and multi-wind instrumentalist. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight and switched to baritone by the time he was twelve. He studied music in high school at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and went on to studies in music, saxophone performance, literature, and ethnomusicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, Baczkowski became the music director of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y, where he has since produced and presented hundreds of concerts of contemporary music as well as numerous community-based artist residencies.

In addition to organizing multiple ensembles, such as the Buffalo Improvisers Orchestra, and the Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit, Baczkowski also performs with the 12/8 Path Band, Genkin Philharmonic, Ubudis Quartet, Rey Scott’s Unusually Different, in duos with percussionists Ravi Padmanabha and John Bacon and guitarists Bill Nace, Omar Tamez, and Bill Sack and in numerous other ensembles as well as solo. He has collaborated with many renowned musicians and has appeared at festivals in North America, Mexico, and Europe.

Gerald Cleaver:

Drummer Gerald Cleaver was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and is a product of the rich music tradition found there and also in his home. Inspired by his father, John Cleaver, also a drummer, he began playing the drums at an early age. He also played violin in elementary school and switched to trumpet during junior high and high school. While in his teens, he gained early working experience with Ali Muhammad Jackson, Lamont Hamilton, Earl Van Riper, and Pancho Hagood and later with Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden, Rodney Whitaker, A. Spencer Barefield and Wendell Harrison. Cleaver earned a B.A. in music education from the University of Michigan. During his studies he was awarded an National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Study Fellowship to study with drummer Victor Lewis. After graduating he began teaching in Detroit, and later joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. He relocated to New York in 2002.

Cleaver has worked with Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Jacky Terrasson, Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Mario Pavone, Charles Gayle, Matthew Shipp, Reggie Workman, Joe Morris, Craig Taborn, Ralph Alessi, Eddie Harris, and Miroslav Vitous, among others. In 2002 “Adjust”, recorded for the Spanish label Fresh Sound New Talent, was nominated in the Best Debut Recording category.

video recording by Richard Stankiewicz, audio recording by Randy Thaler & video editing by Mitch Altman.

links: https://firemuseumpresents.com/events/gig-895/ 

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlVWFWlcKE